the blood you'll cry

hunter × hunter 1999 is really crazy. my vocabulary is not enough to describe it but,

normally i don't expect the anime adaptation of a masterpiece to be THAT good, visually. THE ART? THE COLORS? THE WAY THEY DEPICT MATERIALS? EVERY BACKGROUND SCENES? AND THE ORIGINAL WORK IS ALREADY A MASTERPIECE?

look, that fur...collar...thing...of chrollo's coat or even the candle flame, i bet now they will just outline it all.

Ok but it should be fair though

But the point is: even just the chance of having bad luck is unfairly skewed in this society.

That's the point. An equitable society means that the chance that something bad will happen to you, is roughly equal across our population.

Instead of being specifically skewed towards the poor. Additionally: Black and Indigenous people are systemically disadvantaged by this society and thus are more likely to be poor and are in fact much more likely to get and die from cancer. Weaponizing health has been an active tool of white supremacy for a long time.

We are living in a society that is so deliberately unfair that even cancer discriminates.

(There's also some evidence that the poor are more likely to develop autoimmune diseases, but this hasn't been studied as much.)

What are Dybbukim? How can we interpret our tradition surrounding them during this fraught moment, as Jewish communities cling to and cleave from tradition, spirituality, and ḥesed (loving-kindness)?

What are our dybbukim?

How does the tradition of Dybbukim engage with our values of Hereness?

As we seek international solidarity while remaining rooted in Jewishness; transformational and yet, demanding of us to be present and connected to the past, never without our roots & the conditions that we re-imagine this ancestral wisdom in.

The stunning images were created by @mygolem_is_here and photographers Aaron Farley and Magda Chudzik.

As a reminder, this is one interpretation and experience of Jewish folkore and folklife. This post focuses on the experience of Ashkenazim in Poland. Jewishness is diverse & vast: this post serves as representation of one facet of it.